Heavyweight champions rarely suffer from a shortage of willing contenders vying for their title, but that’s the problem recently crowned Strikeforce kingpin Daniel Cormier faces after finishing off the promotion’s Grand Prix.
The eight-man tournament featured a large percentage of Strikeforce’s heavyweight roster, with still more of its big fellas, Cormier included, rounding out the injury-replacement bracket of the competition.
With the Grand Prix firmly in the rear-view mirror, nearly all of its entrants, as well as the few outsiders left out, have migrated to other promotions. The only two guys left in the stable are Cormier and finalist Josh Barnett.
The complete absence of options has forced Cormier to look outside of Strikeforce for his next bout and the recently crowned champ has not been shy about dropping a name here or there.
As previously reported by mmafighting.com, Cormier feels that a fight between him and Shane Carwin would be a good thing. Says Cormier:
I think if there is a plus one and Zuffa’s going to send someone over it is going to have to be someone that is very good you know? Maybe Shane Carwin, as he’s coming back. He’s a guy with a lot of name value and I don’t necessarily know if that’s a step up (from Josh Barnett) but that is somebody with name value.
Here, we will examine this hypothetical contest and see how this fight might go down, should it become a reality in the not too distant future.
Either fighter will be assigned a slight, moderate, significant or extreme advantage for each area of the game that is analyzed.